Oh sorry didn’t see this comment, I put a source for it in a reply to myself because I wanted to follow up. It was talked about in a lot of trans publications at the time, and in a lot of trans conferences (which have very sparse documentation on the modern internet)
Regardless we(and hopefully anyone thinking objectively) can see that the DDR while nowhere near perfect was far better on LGBT+ issues than their captalist western counterparts
Not (just) because of the attitudes of potentiates but because one system over the other enabled the progression in equality and equity of all groups and peoples
Source on that? I don’t disbelieve you, Weimar Germany was on the cutting edge of trans liberation and gender-confirming surgeries
Magnus Hirschfeld having performed some of the first gender confirming surgeries, and was one of the first to have their work burned by the Nazis
And some within the DDR revived this tendency, despite internal and more significant external pressure
Oh sorry didn’t see this comment, I put a source for it in a reply to myself because I wanted to follow up. It was talked about in a lot of trans publications at the time, and in a lot of trans conferences (which have very sparse documentation on the modern internet)
Hadn’t seen that when I’d replied, thank you
Regardless we(and hopefully anyone thinking objectively) can see that the DDR while nowhere near perfect was far better on LGBT+ issues than their captalist western counterparts
Not (just) because of the attitudes of potentiates but because one system over the other enabled the progression in equality and equity of all groups and peoples